Collar.



M. KOMURA.

COLLAR.

APPLIGATION FILED 17.113.112, 1912.

Patented Apr. 1.5, 1913.

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MITSUZIRO KOMURA, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

COLLAR,

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application led February 12, 1912. Serial No. 677,088.

To all whom t may concern: Be it known that I, MrrsUzmo KOMURA, asubject of the Emperor of Japan, residing at San Francisco', inthecounty of San Francisco and State of California, have invented vcertainnew and useful Improvements in Collars;and I do declare-the following tobe a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, s'uch as willenable others skilled struction, combination a'nd'arrangement of partsas will be more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings; Figure l is a perspective view of myimproved collarI showing the ends fastened together in operativeposition, part of the Hap being broken away and in section to moreclearly disclose the improved fastening means. Fig. 2 is a front view ofthe ends of the collar showing the same separated, parts of one endbeing cross sectional view on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. n l.

In carrying out the invention, I provide the inner or underlying end `oflthe collar band l'with a slit 2 which ,is preferably U shaped as shown.The material cut by the slit 2 forms a downwardly projecting tonguel 3which provides one part of my improved fastening mechanism, the neck 13of said tongue being at .its top and beneath the fold 10 between thecollar band and its Hap l1.

-The edges of the slit 2 and tongue 3 are stitched or bound in anysuitable manner to prevent fraying or raveling.

The co-acting part of my improved fastening is in the form of arectangular or other suitably shaped notch 4 located in the upper edgeof the outer or overlapping end 5 o the collar band. The notch 4 1s 4ofsufficient width to receive the tongue 3 and is of suiiicient depth toprevent the casual disengagement of the tongue therefrom, and its bottom14 is by preference disposed a less distance from the upper edge of theoverlapping end 5 of the collar band than the neck 13 of the tongue 3'is below the bend 10 between the bandand tne flap 11. This detail ofconstruction permits the overlapping Patented Apr'. 15, 19'13.

end 5 to pass up under the 'flap 11 at the 4other end of the collar andclose to its -fold 10, as seen in Fig. .1.. The edges of the notch arestitched or otherwisebound to prevent fraying or raveling.

The tongue 3 in the end 1 and the notch in the end 5 of the collar arelocated at such 'Y positions relative to each other and to the regularbutton holes 6 in the ends of the collar that when said button holes areengaged with the collarbut-ton the notch 4 will be brought intoposit-ion for engagement with the tongue andvwhen thus engaged willsecurely hold the upper portion of the ends of the outer. flap or foldof the collar in contact yor close engagement thus producing the closedfront eli'ect.

. It will be noted that my improved fastenjing device is formed entirelyas a part of the collar and vdoes ,not require any additional materialand very little additional labor in forming or constructing the same,therefore a collar constructed with my improvements canbe made forsubstantially the cost of producing an ordinary collar of thisstyle.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, the construction and operation of the invention will be readilunderstood without requiring a more exten ed explanation.

AVarious changes in lthe form, proportion and the minor details ofconstruction may be resorted to without departing from the principle orsacrificing any of the'advantages of this invention as defined.

Having .thus described the invention what I claim is:

The'herein described turn-down collar whose band is rovided near itsinner or underlying end with a U-shaped slit producing an integraldownwardly-projecting tongue whose neck-is adjacent the fold betweensaid band and the flap of the collar, and the outer or overlying end ofwhose band is provided in its upper edge with la notch Whose bottom isnearer said edge than the distance between the neck of the tpngue andthe fold above it, both said ends being promy hand in presence of two.subscribing witvided with button holes for the collar-button nesses. 4

so disposed relatively to the tongue and notch that. when the latter areengaged the 5 holes are in register and the upper corners Witnesses ofthe flap stand in juxtaposition. C. W. MELODY,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set C. E. KROGHNKE.

MITSUZIRO KOMURA.

